Native Americas (First Nations) - Visual Quick Study

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Native American Cultural Areas

North American - Native Language Groups

1600s

Distribution of the "Barbarous" Tribes East of the Mississippi    1491

A map of the Native American families and groups in North America east of the Mississippi River circa 1491. 

Map of the Indian Families, 1650

A map of the Native American families and groups in North America east of the Mississippi River as located in 1650. 

Removal of Southern Indians, 1830 to 1834

Forced Migrations

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Native American Study 

• Sad saga of deceit by U.S. government replete with colorful maps of Native North American Languages and the Trail of Tears   --  Recommended Reading >

Religion in America

America's Most (and Least) Religious Metro Areas

Religion in America has an unmistakable geographic dimension

Three of the top five most religious metros are in Alabama — Montgomery, Birmingham, and Huntsville. Jackson, Mississippi, also ranks among the top five.

Burlington, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado, tie for the title of the nation's least religious metro area. In these two metros, fewer than one in five residents claim to be "very religious." San Francisco and Boston also rank among the least religious metros in America.

These patterns conform to the broader findings of political scientist Ronald Inglehart, whose detailed World Values Surveys identify the shift from religious to secular values as one part of the transition to more economically advanced societies. Politicos on the left and right like to explain religious voters' proclivity purely in terms of values. But this misses a central point - that religion is inextricably bound up with the nation's underlying economic and geographic class divide.

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- See the Correlation - 

The Real Boundaries of the Bible Belt

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Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells

Pennsylvania: 

Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells

Flash-based Interactive Map showing data collected from more than 200 natural gas wells. Very Interesting - be sure to interact with the map...

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Water Shortages

World Water Shortages

See the dramatic affects on the supply of water as climate change progresses...

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U.S.A.

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Food production in the “breadbasket” of the U.S. depends on water from the Ogallala Aquifer. The Ogallala’s volume will fall a staggering 52 percent between 2010 and 2060.

See also an earlier post >

A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map Of America

A website that tracks the movement of dollar bills. 

Lines that the money rarely crossed are noted in blue. ^

Money-in-motion is one proxy for how people connect. 

Yakking on the phone is another. 

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Pretty Interesting (especially the dollar tracking data build)

The Shape of Song in Images

Chopin, Mazurka in F# Minor

The image illustrates the complex, nested structure of the piece.

Diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.

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This is cool!

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Check out the interactive (wait till the java app loads)

Bach, Ravel, Miles Zavis, Isaac Hayes, Led Zeppelin, even DIY

Noisy dogs and NYC's Map of Noise

Noisy dogs appear to live at 53 Street at Second Avenue!

A very interesting series of maps...

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Our Sun and Sunspot Activity

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Look How Quickly the U.S. Got Fat (yikes!)

1985-2010 Animated Map

(I slowed down the animation and added the bar)

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The Deregulation of the Airline Industry

Converging Flight Paths

Mergers and Shutdown

This is a very effective infographic!

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Where Did All the Workers Go?

The 37 percent mystery in five words (and six infographics)

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World Religions

(Click on any image to view a larger version)

Part 2 - World Map - Glacier Retreat

World Map- Glacier Retreat - What's Happening?

Part 1 - Glaciers... Past and Current Photos

 Part 1 - Glaciers...  Past and Current Photos

Yikes !

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Somewhere in the Pacific Ccean is a floating mass trapped by currents. Consisting mainly of plastic, it is almost three times the size of Spain and Portugal combined...

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Convection Currents and The Convergence Zone

(The Pacific Gyre)

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This article has some wonderful interactive animations

World's Most Dangerous Countries for Tourists

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